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Wembley – Here We Go

After two successful public test events the new Wembley has been granted its test certificate by Brent Council and the FA has wasted no time in announcing the stadium as the venue for May 19th’s FA Cup Final which could yet feature the dream final …

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The Hammers Will Walk It…

Just because Liverpool have won their last 11 games, beaten West Ham twice this season, not lost to them at all for seven years, finished 27 points ahead of them in the league and have kept 33 clean sheets in the last nine months some …

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Missions. Impossible?

Early May sees the domestic football charabanc trundling to its terminus for another year, top deck swathed in streamers and bunting for the winners and survivors, lower deck sheltering the shellshocked who’ve slipped at the last. Few grounds in the country will witness such a …

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Phew… That Was Close

Only one goal ahead and four minutes to go it looked as if it might be extra time, but Fisher Athletic hung on to beat brave Hendon 3-2 in the final of the London FA Senior Cup on Tuesday night. Fisher had been 3-0 up …

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That’s Football, Me Ol’ China

Named only at the weekend as an official ambassador for London by mayor Ken Livingstone, Chelsea football club have wasted no time in offering assistance to China’s Olympic football team in the run up to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Chelsea’s official site reports that …

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Arsenal Poised, Palace Hopeful, Cambridge Victorious

There are only two fixtures involving London’s professional clubs this week and neither of them are taking place in the capital, but both have much hanging on them. Arsenal travel to Turin with that all-important 2-0 lead to face Juventus for a place in the …